The function that this topic describes might
not be available, depending on how lab management permissions and
client access licenses have been defined for your user account. If you are integrated with an external
provider that manages virtual images and machines, you can view, deploy,
and assign test environments to virtual collections in
IBM® Rational® Quality
Manager. A virtual collection is a logical grouping
of either virtual images or virtual machines that represent application
topologies.
You must be integrated with an external provider that manages
virtual images and machines, for example, VMLogix or Surgient.
To work with virtual collections:
- In the left sidebar, point to the Lab Management icon
(
), and click All
Virtual Collections. The All Virtual Collections editor
opens.
- In View, select Virtual
Image Collections or Virtual Machine Collections. The collection is displayed with the collection name,
description, and associated test environments.
- To refresh the list of collections, click the Refresh icon
(
).
- If you need a new test environment for the collection,
first create it, and then continue with this step. To assign a test
environment to a collection, select a collection, and then click the Assign
a Test Environment icon (
). A list of test environments is displayed. Select a test
environment, and click Add.
- To deploy a virtual image collection, select the collection,
and then click the Deploy icon (
). This action
creates a collection of virtual machines that are based on these images.
You can check the progress of the deployment in the inventory history
view. When the deployment is complete, you can work with the machine
collection that was created. For example, you can run test scripts
remotely on those machines.
- When you are finished using the virtual machines, you can
undeploy them to free up resources on the host system. To undeploy
a virtual machine collection, select the virtual machine collection,
and then click the Undeploy virtual machines icon
(
). You can also deploy and undeploy individual virtual images
and machines that are managed by an external provider application.
However, you cannot deploy or undeploy virtual images or virtual machines
that are manually created in Rational Quality Manager.